FY20 Annual Report
We believe the best way to solve homelessness is by preventing it.
Preventing eviction and immediate homelessness through rental assistance, legal referrals, landlord mediation, and tenant education keeps families safely housed. Preventing ongoing risk of homelessness by offering families health and trauma-informed mental health services, makes it possible for families to achieve lasting stability. Preventing barriers to children’s access to education and school, by keeping their families housed today, disrupts the generational cycle of homelessness and prevents homelessness in the long term.
Partnership makes prevention possible.
Believing homelessness is solvable is the foundation of our approach to solving homelessness. We seek out and work with partners to co-create a world in which housing is embraced as a human right and all New Yorkers are able to close the door to their own home each night. Partnership makes it possible to develop interventions that avert crisis for New Yorkers today, and ensure ongoing stability over the long-term. We build partnerships in every sector — philanthropy, business, government, nonprofits and the arts — and with individuals who want to support New Yorkers in need. In partnership, we maximize today’s success in ensuring that children and families stay in their homes, and in so doing, create an ROI that will have impact far into the future. See the complete list of our FY20 partners >
Our Mission
The Partnership to End Homelessness is committed to building a just and equitable society and creating lasting community change through solution-oriented programs and policy initiatives that will eliminate the root causes of homelessness.
Who We Serve
The Partnership serves New Yorkers experiencing, at risk of, or recovering from homelessness. This includes people of any ability, age, family type, gender, national origin, race and sexual orientation living in communities across the five boroughs.
Programs and Impact
More than 50,000 New Yorkers were reached by The Partnership’s housing, crisis and emergency services, health and education programs, which were delivered in collaboration with hundreds of individual, corporate and philanthropic supporters, as well as government agencies. We are only able to achieve this impact in partnership with the scores of organizations throughout NYC that provide emergency shelter, housing, food and supportive services every day. In addition, we exposed audiences of millions to new understandings about homelessness through our community engagement efforts.
We are a partner for…
Carmen
Carmen lives in Brooklyn with her four children. Carmen had been working as a housekeeper, but lost most of her business when the COVID-19 pandemic began. When her partner left their residence shortly thereafter, the overall household income was drastically reduced and Carmen quickly accumulated three months of rental arrears, and had no savings or other means of support. The Partnership immediately began mediation with Carmen’s landlord, which resulted in a 40% reduction in arrears. The Partnership provided financial assistance to reduce Carmen’s final balance to zero, and continues to work with Carmen and the landlord in the effort to prevent her from accumulating rental arrears in the future, and to make sure her four children are supported to stay in school.
- Offer rental assistance and landlord mediation to prevent the immediate loss of home and future homelessness
- Refer clients to legal assistance
- Advocate to prevent source-of-income discrimination and support voucher-based housing placement
- Offer comprehensive benefits analysis and connect clients to income support services through government and community partners
- Partner with local soup kitchens/food pantries and FEMA to offer emergency food
FY20 Impact
- 8,000 New Yorkers received housing and emergency services to stave off evictions and secure their existing homes through our partnerships with the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, NYC Human Resources Administration, New York Community Trust, NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Services and Robin Hood Foundation. [More…]
- 35,000 meals were provided to families in need, in partnership with groups such as FEMA, United Way, Hetrick-Martin Institute, Metropolitan Community Church and the Church of the Village. [More…]
- Offer short-term in-house clinical services and emotional well-being training
- Support clients living with HIV/AIDS to increase their health education and take control of their treatment
- Connect low-income New Yorkers to community partners for primary care and long-term therapeutic counseling services
- Using a trauma-informed lens, identify clients in need of interventions to prevent them from cycling in and out of crisis, which often precedes homelessness
FY20 Impact
- 6,500 New Yorkers received ongoing stabilizing support services, from clinical casework and mental health and emotional wellbeing interventions to basic necessities like furniture, clothing, and toiletries. [More…]
- 17,000 masks were made available, in partnership with Ledbury, to protect clients from COVID-19 risks
- With legal partners, advocate to keep children in school and placed in shelters near their schools
- Connect children to ongoing services that support their learning and advancement
- Partner with NYC schools to explore connection between children’s high absenteeism and their families’ housing instability
FY20 Impact
The Partner for Education Fund launched this year to prevent families from falling into homelessness and improve children’s educational outcomes to interrupt generational homelessness. The Fund also advocates to keep children living in NYC homeless shelters — almost 20,000 — connected to their home schools and avoid the educational disruptions that lie at the root of generational homelessness. Fund partners include sponsors Paul, Weiss and Lúgh Studio, Honoree Sourabh Gupta, 150+ guests who attended its launch event and the network of community stakeholders who have contributed.- 40,000+ children and parents in the family shelter system were impacted by our schools access advocacy project, with partners like Simpson Thacher and the NYC Department of Education. [More…]
- Leverage cross-sector campaigns to create new narratives about homelessness, highlighting the most vulnerable people of any ability, age, family type, gender, national origin, race and sexual orientation
- Lead public education campaigns, in collaboration with housing, education and support services nonprofits, about specific initiatives
- Establish strategic alliances with shelters, service providers and medical establishments to ensure clients receive employment support and long-term care beyond The Partnership
- Engage clients as organizational advisors via Client Council meetings
FY20 Impact
- 20 million+ audience exposed to public education campaigns about eviction prevention, education access and homelessness, especially relative to NYC’s COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, through major news partners including ABC News, CBS News and Reuters.
We are a partner for…
Carlos
Carlos came to The Partnership as an undocumented construction worker living in Brooklyn with his partner and their children. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, his salary had been sufficient to support the household. Carlos was abruptly laid off of a construction job installing floors in a newly erected building. The family scraped by, using what funds they had to cover food and other necessities and contributed what they could to paying. Carlos was slowly able to return to work on a reduced schedule of two to three days per week, but the family continued to accumulate rental arrears and needed our assistance. The Partnership contacted their landlord and negotiated a 27% forgiveness on the rent owed. The Partnership then provided financial assistance to lower his arrears to zero. Carlos’s hours have been increasing steadily and he hopes to achieve full-time status again soon. Now, Carlos can ensure that his family has a place to call home and his children can stay in school.
COVID-19
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, NYC’s unemployment is at 16 percent (twice the national rate) and more than a million New Yorkers are in rent arrears. The State moratorium on evictions has been extended multiple times, but ordinary New Yorkers — many of whom never thought they would be in such circumstances — have rent arrears that have been ballooning since April 2020. In these trying times, we continue to work in partnership to keep families in their homes. We are partnering with renters and their landlords to negotiate lower rental arrears. Foundation partners, including Robin Hood Foundation, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation and New York Community Trust, are investing in emergency rental assistance in all five boroughs. Corporate partners like Ledbury are providing 17,000 masks to protect New Yorkers outside their homes. Partnership with the many generous individuals putting their hearts into helping their neighbors keep a home has resulted in a community of giving that ranges from $2 to as much as $100,000. Together, we are making it possible for hundreds of families and children to sleep under their own roof. As we look ahead to the challenges coming in 2021, we continue to partner with other eviction prevention organizations in NYC to advocate for the eviction moratorium to extend for as long as necessary, and to call upon government at all levels to provide rental assistance, similar to the $100B package proposed in Congress. With high unemployment and the looming tsunami of evictions, we will need partnership more than ever to keep families at home.
Preventing homelessness saves money and lives.
Prevention is less than one-third of the cost of homelessness. The roughly $68,000 it costs to keep a family with children in the NYC homeless shelter system is more than 3x the cost of keeping a family in their apartment with a monthly rent of $1,700, or $20,000 annually. Yet, the number of people experiencing homelessness and living in New York City’s shelters and on the streets over the past 10 years has risen by more than half (55 percent). Today, more than 60,000 people, including almost 20,000 children, are experiencing homelessness in New York City.
Prevention efforts improve the future trajectory of everyone facing eviction. Financial assistance and mediation make families 76% more likely to remain housed long-term. Children who stay in their homes miss fewer days from school and double their chances of graduating from high school, compared to those who spend time in shelters. Prevention helps people to bypass the trauma of homelessness and offers resources to bring them more stability and better physical health and emotional wellbeing. Prevention interrupts generational homelessness, too: children whose families receive eviction prevention support grow up to earn higher pay than those who have experienced homelessness. In partnership, we can continue to offer critical interventions that will keep families in their homes today, and for tomorrow.
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